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For those of you who just received the email about getting David's tips for managing email, I would like to offer the following three suggestions. I have been teaching this modified version for six years, and it has been working very well. As David says, "as simple as possible, but no simpler". ...
What do you do with your NAs on your respective email programs? I have the same "@catagories" on my email as my PDA but my @home computer on my gmail doesn't get enough attention at home as my @home computer on my PDA. Is there any way to close this open loop?
for eg. once a year, i should do taxes, health check up, every 2 months, haircut, car maintenace, etc. any ideas would be appreciated. i am trialling the outlook add in and am wondering how to categorise these kinda items.
Hi Folks, I have implemented a physical A-Z Reference Filing System. It contains items that have no psychic pull and that are not actionable but may be of use in the future. Beautiful! However, I have a few physical items remaining that fit the someday/maybe category. Someday/maybe items seem...
I have a problem. I have two good, workable systems. One is digital, the other is analog. That should be a good thing. I've been working with the paper system (index cards) for a few months now. The problem is that after I've spent some time with one system, I start to get restless and think that...
I've been using GTD for around 2.5 years now and like to think I'm okay at it. I've developed a habit over that time of always thinking of the next action for a project if I finish the last action and writing it down either in Notepad (Palm), Outlook, Keysuite Tasks (Palm) or a note in the...
I am augmenting my list of unprioritized next actions with sized-up tasks for the day. Unprioritized actions are still grouped by context. Prioritized actions, along with my estimate of the required effort to complete them, are what I want to get done TODAY. When I finish these, it is nice...
Ok, here is a situation that I’m confused on how to handle using GTD: I had an action to do “email HR to change my tax withholdings”. I went to do this and realized the old HR guy is no longer with the company and I didn’t know who to email with this action. I decided to email someone else in the...
I think this is my first post here. I read the book over a year ago and put some of its ideas into practice but never achieved a smooth or complete system. I'm on paper with my NA lists. I don't need to take them anywhere, so my "Contexts" are: Client Work, Non-client Business, Waiting,...
Well, my quest to work with daily focus lists in my hybrid of GTD and DIT continues. However, this morning I received another one of those GTD moments where David Allen's teachings really come into play. So I created my daily focus list of what I really, really wanted to get done today. These...
A professional organized (thanks Sylvia) I used to work with had a classification of people as either visual or camouflage: http://www.tamethechaos.com/site/selfeval.cfm It is helpful to know which type you are e.g. I am a visual which means if I can't see something it effectively does not...
I was just wondering if people kept sub-projects within projects? For example, my main project is "Deliver Fund Raising Data Mart", but there are phases and subject area that are easier to track. Right now I have two sub projects, "Research Fund Raising" and "Draft Data Model". Each of those has...
I'm trying to implement GTD for the first time, I read the book and have started to set up a paper based notebook for my lists of Projects, Next Actions, Waiting For, Someday/Maybe, then I added a Miscellaneous tab. But I'm the kind of guy that had piles of stuff everywhere on my desk and the...
OK I'm just getting back on the GTD bandwagon after a long time off. I know some of what works/does not work for me but could use some advice on other areas. --Palm PDA (Sony CLIE Th-55)--it goes in my pants pocket and I take it EVERYWHERE (beats lugging around the old time design binder). ...
Not that I want to complicate things, but I was wondering if on my straight project list I should be marking those projects for which I am waiting for something, or does that not matter? What do others do? I have about 4 projects on that list that I cannot do anything with until I get what I'm...
Has anyone had a chance to listen to the "In Conversation" series yet? Any thoughts? Thanks! Jeff
Well, today I just felt so overwhelmed with all these lists, these projects, somedays/maybes, etc . . . that I tossed them all!! I sat down with an index card and made a simple list of what I want to get done today. And you know what??? It feels so much better! I feel more open. I know what I need...
Here's a giggle for the GTDers out there (or the people who love them but think they're obsessive). The Look Shiny site has published a video guide to "NGTD" - Not Getting Things Done. It recommends books, TV shows, RSS feeds and YouTube as sources of procrastination material which, as an added...
I've posted similar "concerns" in the past, but this is my last ditch cry for enlightenment before I just accept defeat. I can't do GTD anymore. I've never been a black belt, but I've completely lost control. In the early 90's, when I used a single paper-based organizer, and only had my self...
I hope I express this well - forgive me if I don't - but sometimes I wonder if people have a problem with the seeming lack of day-to-day structure or prioritization in GTD because of cultural influences. When I read or listen to DA, his approach seems to be more Eastern, while many of us were...
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